Ida B. Wells

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The Pulitzer board issued a special citation Monday to the trailblazing African American journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, noting “her outstanding and courageous reporting” on lynchings. Wells was a journalist and publisher in the late 1800s and later helped found civil rights and women’s suffrage groups; she died in 1931. The board said the citation comes with…

The ramp from outbound Ida B. Wells Drive to the outbound Kennedy Expressway will close Jan. 4, according to state transportation officials. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski explains what drivers need to know.

A man was stabbed during an altercation at DePaul University’s Loop campus Thursday morning, the university said in an alert to students.

At least 10 men had their drug convictions vacated Monday marking the fourth mass exoneration tied to notorious Chicago police sergeant Ronald Watts and his tainted tactical unit.

For the first time ever, a major downtown Chicago street will be named in honor of a black woman — Ida B. Wells.

Authorities vacated the convictions of seven more people arrested by notorious Chicago police sergeant Ronald Watts and his tainted tactical unit, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Friday.

One of the men wrongfully accused by disgraced former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts is suing the city, just under a year after he and more than a dozen others saw their convictions overturned in Cook County’s first mass exoneration.

In an extraordinary move, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx did something Monday which isn’t often done in Chicago’s criminal justice system.

At least 18 men are expected see their convictions overturned Monday in Cook County Criminal Court. It will mark the second, and largest, mass exoneration linked to a tainted tactical unit which operated for more than a decade on Chicago’s South Side.

With their only witnesses tainted by what could become the largest scandal to ever hit the Chicago Police Department, Cook County prosecutors threw in the towel today, and granted freedom to a man who has spent the last decade behind bars.

A stretch of Congress Parkway could be renamed after Ida B. Wells after the Chicago City Council introduced an ordinance to approve the move.

With their only witnesses tainted by what could become the largest scandal to ever hit the Chicago Police Department, Cook County prosecutors threw in the towel today, and granted freedom to a man who has spent the last decade behind bars.

Chicago has already paid out well over $670 million in police misconduct cases in the past 15 years, but that expenditure could skyrocket due to current and future lawsuits from people who say they were framed by former Sgt. Ronald Watts or Detective Reynaldo Guevara.

After more than ten years in prison, Anthony McDaniels says he should now be set free because the only officers who convicted him are too tainted to be called as witnesses.

Amidst a snowballing scandal in the Chicago Police Department, a man convicted on gun charges says he should now be freed, because even prosecutors say the officers who built the case against him cannot be trusted.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office has written the Chicago Police Department, submitting a list of police officers no longer deemed credible to serve as witnesses at criminal trials.

Hillary Clinton returned to her native Chicago on Thursday to speak at a fundraiser lunch for the Ida B. Wells Legacy Committee. Clinton thanked African American women who have overwhelmingly supported her and encouraged women to run for office.

When Ben Baker stepped out of a downstate prison two years ago after more than a decade behind bars, he spoke of his long road to freedom, and how good it felt that someone had finally believed his story.